Word: ill-health
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...lend her calling cards and thank-you notes that traditional noble oomph) I must regretfully inform you that I will be unable to attend. Even more regretfully, I feel it is my duty to be candid about my reasons for non-attendance, which have nothing to do with ill-health or prior engagements, but result from an assortment of annoyances with your peculiar family and its history that I believe are both just and widely shared...
...RESIGNED. BISHOP CARLOS BELO, 54, outspoken East Timorese Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...
...Pusey expresses pessimism for the state of the nation in his Baccalaureate speech, saying, “Our national life has been suffering from a peculiarly violent, festering mental ill-health...
...Yeltsin and those around him had their reasons for giving Lebed the ax, the general had his own for getting it, and he attempted to provoke Yeltsin into ousting him on at least three occasions recently. Each time Yeltsin, whose canny political instincts are undiminished by physical ill-health, chose to ignore him. Yeltsin did not want to make a martyr. The President's career had, after all, been made when he was dismissed from the Soviet communist leadership. Lebed has been feeling thwarted ever since going into the government in June, in what was seen at the time...
Unfortunately, the current ill-health of the Indian body politic and the assassination itself are part of a tragedy whose seeds Gandhi more than anyone else helped to sow. But it is a tragedy of choice, not necessity. India's is a system carefully constructed to allow for federal authority while preserving local autonomy; to forge a national culture while respecting inevitable ethnic differences. In recent years Gandhi demonstrated an alarming disregard for the laws of ethnic arithmetic and the system of constitutional checks and balances which must govern India if she is to live in peace...